It was 12 o'clock at night and Reese sat up in his bed writing a letter to Jessica that he knew he wouldn't send. She hadn't talked to him for two and a half months. When he called her she would never talk, all of his letters were returned unopened and he had even thought about flying down to see her but he knew she wouldn't want him to. He had missed her so much. He talked to Miguel and Kay all of the time but none of them really knew how she was since she stayed in her room all of the time. He wished she hadn't pushed him away.
He still hated New York. He went to a private school and all the girls hung all over him and he knew they only liked his looks. He was already at the top of his class and spent his free time thinking about Jessica and studying. He was purely miserable. It was a Friday night and he wished Jessica was with him if for no other reason than to talk. He had finished writing the letter and was reading about anthropology when his phone rang. He picked it up and heard Miguel's voice.
"Reese?" asked Miguel.
"Yeah, what's up?"
"I hate to be calling you this late but Jessica fell down the stairs at the Bennett house and there is something really major that just came out and I think it will really affect her and I was thinking you could fly down for the weekend."
"Is she okay?" asked Reese trying to breathe past the lump in his throat.
"Dr. Russell thinks so. Mrs. Bennett is in the hospital too because she fainted and hit her head. Her and Mr. Bennett aren't really going to be on the best of terms."
"What? Why? I've never even seen them disagree on anything."
"Well, you aren't going to believe this but we all just found out that Mr. Bennett and Ivy Crane dated about 20 years ago and she got pregnant but never told him, he's Ethan Crane's father."
"That's unbelievable," said Reese shocked.
"Yeah, I know man. Do you think you can fly down here?"
"Yeah, I'll be there as soon as I can," said Reese hanging up.

Jessica woke up in the hospital and saw Eve Russell sitting beside her.
"Hi Jessica, how do you feel?" asked Eve.
"My head and my arm hurts. What happened."
"Well apparently you fell down the steps. You broke your arm and you have a cut on your head other than that you and your baby are fine."
"Good," said Jessica looking away.
"Would you like to tell me what happened?" asked Eve suspiciously.
"I went to go downstairs because my light went out, I was so scared, I just wanted to get to the light and I guess I fell. It was so dark," she repeated, after all she wasn't really lying.
"I want you to rest for the next few days, your cast will have to stay on for 6 to 8 weeks, though. Do you want me to get Sam or your sister?"
"No, that's okay, they're at the Crane party, I don't want to disturb them."
"The party ended early, everyone is already here. I'll go tell them that you're alright and that you can leave now," she stopped. "I notice that you haven't told them about your condition yet, I can tell them for you."
Jessica breathed an inner sigh of relief, she had been thinking of ways to tell them but she couldn't and she knew left on her own she never would have told them, it was to hard.
"Okay, tell them."
A few minutes later Sam walked into Jessica's room. "Hey Sweetie, are you alright?" he asked sitting next to her.
She felt shame course over her body, why was he being nice? He must know about the...the thing growing inside of her. "I'm fine, Dad. How was the party?"
"Not very good, your mother fell and hit her head. She's okay though, she woke up as soon as we got to the hospital."
"How'd she fall and who found me at home and brought me here?"
"Kay and Miguel found you. She wanted to tell you something…" said Sam putting his head in his hands.
"What Dad? Your scaring me," Said Jessica as she saw the look on his face.
"We can talk about it when we get home, I think we all just need to sit down and talk. Eve...Eve told us about the pregnancy, I'm so sorry Sweetpea."

A half hour later, Jessica, Kay and Charity were sitting in the back of the car and Sam and Grace were up front. Jessica noticed that they neither looked or talked to each other. Charity looked shaken and upset, but most of the time she was, so it wasn't unusual. Kay on the other hand looked a wreck. Her hair was messed up, her dress wrinkled and she looked disturbed. They pulled into the driveway and they all went to the kitchen. Jessica sat down at the table with Charity and Kay and then looked at her Dad.
"Can anyone please tell me what happened at the party?" asked Jessica.
"Ethan Crane is Dad's son, our brother," blurted out Kay.
"What!?" asked Jessica startled.
"I want you all to know the story from the beginning," said Sam as he looked over at Grace who had her arms crossed and a none to pleasant look on her face. Sam turned his attention back to the girls. "Before I met your mother, I had fallen in love with Ivy Winthrop-Crane. Since she was the governor's daughter we couldn't be together openly. So we would leave letters for each other under a special rock and we'd meet when we could. One summer I went out on a fishing boat to earn some money for us. I wrote her and she never wrote me back. I got back and she was engaged to Julian and they got married. On her wedding night she heard Julian and his father boast about how he didn't love her and that their marriage was a business deal. She ran to me and we slept together but I swear I never knew Ethan was my son. I met your mother and I fell deeply in love with her. She showed me what long lasting love is and whether Ethan is really my son or not I still love all of you."
There was an uncomfortable silence and her father was looking at her and she knew he was going to tell everyone.
"We also need to talk about something else. Jessica is carrying a child as the result of the...assault."
Jessica felt them look at her and couldn't take it anymore, "I'm going to bed," said Jessica going upstairs. She went up to her bed and layed down. She couldn't believe she had another brother. Here she was not even 17, she was a rape victim, she had a long lost brother, her parents were on rocky ground, and she was all alone. "What a great combination," she said out loud. Her own life was falling apart infront of her and so was her family.
Jessica couldn't sleep so she decided to go outside and sit on the porch. She crept down the stairs careful not to disturb anyone. She got down to the living room grabbed her coat and opened the door and standing there ready to knock was Reese.
Jessica dropped her coat as she stared at Reese, wide-eyed. She hadn't talked to him in months and frankly she didn't want to. She was to ashamed of the way she had treated him, she just stood and looked at him.
"Thank God you are okay!" he said hugging her and being careful of her arm.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"Miguel called me and told me you fell, I wanted to see for myself if you were all right. Are you?"
"Yeah, the baby and I are fine," said Jessica absently, not even realizing what she had said.